Arden Institute

EXAMINE. REFLECT. ANALYZE. Lead.

The Arden Institute Team

Tamar March is the Director of The Arden Institute housed at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, and Senior Fellow at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She initiated the Intellectual Renewal for Leaders seminars while Dean of Educational Programs at Radcliffe College. Prior to her appointment at Radcliffe, she held positions of academic leadership at Saint Paul’s College, the New England Conservatory of Music, Clark University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and New England College, and was professor of French and Comparative Literature. Throughout her career, she has maintained an active interest in the intellectual development of educated adults, ranging from her work with faculty development on a national level to the current Arden Seminars.
Barbara Hill served as the President of Sweet Briar College from 1990-96. Since then she has been an independent consultant specializing in leadership development, institutional change and strategic planning. She serves on the American Council on Education as Senior Associate in the Office of Institutional and International Initiatives and was part of the Greater Expectations Project of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She was a senior consultant with the American Council on Education Project on Leadership and Institutional Change and worked with the Office of Women in Higher Education at the Council. Previously, she served as Provost of Denison University, as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Barnard College/Columbia University, and taught English and American Literature at Holyoke Community College, Smith College, Goucher College, and Hood College.
Leigh Hafrey is Senior Lecturer in ethics and communications at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-Master of Mather House, Harvard College. He has also served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School, and moderates seminars in professional and executive education programs, including the Aspen Institute’s Executive Seminar in values-based leadership. A former staff editor at The New York Times Book Review, he has published fiction translations from French to German, cultural journalism, and a book on story-telling and ethics in the workplace, The Story of Success: Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business (2005).
Tina Packer is founder and Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she won the Ronson Award for Most Outstanding Performer. In Britain, she was an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performed in the West End and acted with repertory companies in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leicester and Coventry. She worked for the BBC and ITV television and in film. She has directed 48 productions and has had numerous leading roles on stage for which she received critical acclaim. She is the recipient of Guggenheim and Bunting Fellowships and is the author of several books on Shakespeare.
Martha Andresen, Professor of English Emerita at Pomona College, is a specialist in Shakespearean scholarship and teaching. A recipient of numerous awards for undergraduate teaching, she is also fully engaged in continuing education through the Pomona College Alumni Association. Outside the academy, she has cultivated humanities outreach and life-long learning by engaging professional, corporate, theatre, and community audiences through her publications, lectures, workshops, seminars, public television presentations, and dramaturgy. She has been affiliated with the Ashland, Oregon Summer Shakespeare Festival and has served on the Board of Directors for the Shakespeare Festival Los Angeles. She developed the Thornton Bradshaw Leadership Seminars, "Humanities for Young Professionals," at the Claremont Graduate University, an effort to examine through literature and history the intellectual and ethical issues at the core of every professional endeavor. At the Western Credit Union Management School, hosted yearly by Pomona College, she teaches Shakespeare to professionals in business and finance to develop leadership awareness and communication skills. She was a participant in the Intellectual Renewal for Leaders seminars at Radcliffe College, and was an invited speaker in that program. More recently she has participated in the Arden Summer Seminars, "Theatre and Thought." She is currently affiliated with the Huntington Library, San Marino, California in an effort to develop "Shakespeare at the Huntington," an initiative linking the collections, galleries, and gardens in scholarship, teaching, performance, and community outreach.